# The Muse of the Department

Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850; Waring, James [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1912

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Muse+of+the+Department+Balzac&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

MY DEAR FERDINAND,--If the chances of the world of literature --_habent sua fata libelli_--should allow these lines to be an enduring record, that will still be but a trifle in return for the trouble you have taken--you, the Hozier, the Cherin, the King-at-Arms of these Studies of Life; you, to whom the Navarreins, Cadignans, Langeais, Blamont-Chauvrys, Chaulieus, Arthez, Esgrignons, Mortsaufs, Valois--the hundred great names that form the Aristocracy of the “Human Comedy” owe their lordly mottoes and ingenious armorial bearings. Indeed, “the Armorial of the Etudes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which nothing is forgotten, not eve...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-muse-of-the-department-1912/chapters/16/index.md)